[NTLUG:Discuss] console ownership

[Chris Cox]

Mark Bickel wrote:

>>From discuss-admin at ntlug.org Sat Feb 23 18:30 CST 2002
>>From: Jay Cox <sqrtofone at yahoo.com>
>>To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
>>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] console ownership
>>List-Archive: <http://www.ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/>
>>Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:46:29 -0600 (CST)
>>
>>On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant) wrote:
>>
>>>what do you mean by console ownership.
>>>i am having this error
>>>
>>>Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
>>>Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
>>>
> 
>
>>Did you su to another user in that terminal before you did this? That's
>>one way to get that error.
>>
>
>man xhost
>
...snip...

>
Also, you may want to look at xauth.  SSH with X11  (-X) may also be of 
use for remote users.